Contact
Leopoldstr. 11a, 4. OG, 455
80802 Munich
Phone:
+49 (0) 89 / 2180 - 72360
Email:
Anna.Antonova@rcc.lmu.de
Anna S. Antonova joined the Rachel Carson Center as a researcher in residence in 2019 and took up the position of director of environmental humanities development in 2020. From October 2022, she is also co-I and the academic lead for the Bulgarian Black Sea Transition Coastal Laboratory in the three-year Horizon Europe consortium EmpowerUs. She studies social and environmental change in the contemporary European context, particularly in coastal landscapes, and examines the relationship between societal transformations and environmental governance in the EU. Her research is highly interdisciplinary, combining approaches from the environmental humanities, critical policy studies, and political ecology. Anna was previously a Marie Skłodowska-Curie research fellow as part of the ENHANCE network at the University of Leeds, where she wrote her dissertation on the conflicting narratives about environment and society emerging from the Yorkshire North Sea and Bulgarian Black Sea coastlines.
RCC Project: Strengthening the Environmental Humanities
Third-Party Funded Project: EmpowerUs
Selected Publications:
- "Regimes of value: Economic transformations, ecological livelihoods, and salt cooperatives on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space (2024): 0308518X241295521. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X241295521.
- "Squinting like a state: Narratives of corruption, informal practices, and legacies of societal distrust on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast." Journal for Socio-Cultural Anthropology | Антропология. Списание за социо-културна антропология 11(2) (2024): 26-46. https://anthropology-journal.org/wp/author/anna-antonova.
- “Sustaining Transformations: Changing Marine Governance, Environmental Meaning, and ‘Left Behind’ Brexit Narratives on the Yorkshire East Coast.” Maritime Studies 22 (2023): 2. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40152-022-00290-1.
- “България в ерата на антропоцена? Хуманитарните науки, обществените трансформации и околната среда [Bulgaria in the Anthropocene: Social Transformations and the Relevance of the Environmental Humanities].” Seminar_BG 25 (2023). https://www.seminar-bg.eu/spisanie-seminar-bg/broy25/846-bulgaria-v-erata-na-antropotsena.html.
- “Toxic Flows and Societal Exposures: The Maritime Toxic Timescape, Environmental Degradation, and Social and Political Change on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast from the 1950s Onward.” In Toxic Timescapes: Examining Toxicity across Time and Space, edited by S. Müller and M.B.O. Nielsen. Ohio University Press, 2023.
- with Arvid van Dam. “Environment and Integration on the Edge of Europe.” Political Geography 93 (2022): 102554. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2021.102554.